Counting the days tag (tbr list)

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

I did not explain this thoroughly. Sanskrit belongs to the Indo-European family of languages. It is one of the three earliest ancient documented languages that arose from a common root language now referred to as Proto-Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit ( c. 1500-500 BCE). Mycenaean Greek ( c. 1450 BCE) and Ancient Greek ( c. 750-400 BCE).

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

The oldest texts we use to study Proto-Indo-European languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Mycenaean Greek, and Ancient Greek are foundational to our understanding of the early Indo-European linguistic family. 1. The Rigveda is a collection of hymns composed in early Vedic Sanskrit. It is one of the oldest known texts in any Indo-European language and is a key source for the study of early Indian religion and society. 2. The Linear B script was used by the Mycenaean civilization and is the earliest attested form of the Greek language. These tablets, discovered in sites like Knossos and Pylos, primarily contain records of economic transactions and inventories. 3. The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. While there are older inscriptions and fragments, Homer's epic poems are the earliest substantial literary works in Ancient Greek. They were likely composed orally in the 8th century BCE and later written down. These texts are cornerstones of Ancient Greek literature and culture.

[@eric.aaron.castro]

A bi-lingual reading that I recommend for you is Kamandaki’s Nītisāra, or The Essence of Politics published by Harvard’s Murty Classical Library of India. The Sanskrit text, presented here in the Devanagari script, accompanies a new English prose translation.

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

@@eric.aaron.castro Sounds interesting, just added it to my wishlist.

[@booksmitin]

LOVED seeing the diversity of languages you had on your list. Thanks so much for tagging me. I'm excited for this tag :)

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Yay, thank you! Can't wait to see what's on your list.

[@booksmitin]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary I'm not as quick with tag videos, but it will happen :)

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

@@booksmitin No worries, take your time. Congrats on your other channel blowing up btw! Keep up the good work

[@MargaretPinard]

Down the rabbithole with Tolstoy references... That's so fun! Thanks for the tag 🫶

[@apoetreadstowrite]

Ah, I have also just done this tag - lots of fun. Really glad I have discovered your channel. I have always avoided true crime, makes me feel voyeuristic on other people's suffering, though I'm sure there are life-giving examples within the genre. Oh, I must search out that Balzac, sounds great. I really need to read more Jane Austen. I look forward to following your adventures with books.

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Hello fellow poet, I just subscribed to your channel, so glad to have found it. I think 'In Cold Blood' made me think I like true-crime but I honestly just bought that book because of the spooky statue on the cover. Thank you for your comment!

[@apoetreadstowrite]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary: Ah, I've always wanted to read that Capote book. I must get to it. Yes, sometimes we shouldn't turn away from things that need to be sensitively interrogated. I think you're right.

[@MargaretPinard]

And I didn't know either of the creators of the tag, so new channels to subscribe to for me 🥳

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Thank you! I'm looking forward to your video

[@ToReadersItMayConcern]

Ohhh, John Fosse! Great choice! Stream-of-consciousness writing is some of my favorite. I didn't attend to the humor of The Romanovs when I read it (perhaps distracted by some of the gruesome horrors that periodically arose), but you're right, there is a lot of absurd, over-the-top lavishness among some royalty, particularly Peter and Catherine. Thank you for sharing your wide-ranging selection and joining in on the tag fun!

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

My expectations for Fosse have really gone up now. I was laughing at their nicknames for each other, but I don't share their sense of humor. I simply wasn't expecting it so it caught me off guard and made me laugh at them, not with them. Thank you for the lovely tag.

[@ToReadersItMayConcern]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary I think it's good of you to notice the human (thus the humor) in the midst of these historical horrors: we can forget how human some of the worst of us is. Not too long ago I read Simon Sebag Montefiore's two biographies of Stalin. Though Stalin is starkly sociopathic, he also manages to be charming. I appreciate that Montefiore kept that element in. It's helpful in understanding how such cruelties can commence at such a massive scale: the leader distracts via charm and often through the use of superficial moral framing. The fact that even I, a reader many years later who knows the consequences of that man's words, could still be lightly charmed, that is fascinating.

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

@@ToReadersItMayConcern I think you just nailed Montefiore's style of writing on the head. He's one my favorite historians specifically because he reminds us of the human aspect. This is perhaps one of the reasons reading Tolstoy has been positive for me lately. I am convinced he wrote War and Peace just so people would stop referring to 'the pitchfork' revolution as the Napoleonic wars. Occasionally we chose someone to place blame or glory but wars, atrocities and systematic abuse is a collective decision. I am skeptical to the point of cynical, and I want to stop that and enjoy the smell of flowers in the rare moments life is not kicking me in the teeth. So I take what I can get.

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

@@ToReadersItMayConcern I just realized I forgot to mention that I found Hopstotch because of your video!

[@ToReadersItMayConcern]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary I hope you end up adoring Julio Cortazar's eclectic style: he often leaps between stream-of-consciousness to suddenly particular realism to magic realism to humor to poetic musings. If you travel with him-slowing down and speeding up as necessary-I think you'll find his artistry deeply fulfilling. I'm just now nearly finished with his short story collection Blow-Up and Other Stories, and I find his range of voices exceptional (and how he always follows feel above sense, sound above reason, devotion to ambiguous yearning, that yearning to reach the cusp of our ever-impending peripheral view).

[@ProseAndPetticoats]

Aww so kind of you. Thanks for joining the tag! 😍 great video. Indeed, we will be reading Père Goriot (yes, father) with my bookclub. I love that you also have it on your list. Also, I loved reading Mansfield Park. War & Peace is also fantastic. Good luck with Proust and The Aeneid!

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Father Goriot is much more appropriate title, I don't like it when they change. But I'm sure we'll like the book. I am loving Mansfield Park, Fanny is a great MC. Thank you for everything! xo

[@Incredible_Piano]

Finally had a time to see your channel🌹 and great to see your passion for books! Subscribed to hear more of you❤

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Thank you! You already know I love your music and your channel, but it is so nice to see you here! xo

[@Incredible_Piano]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary thank you!☺️

[@ellenmadebookclub]

Thank you for tagging me! 😊 I've been tagged to do this already so I'd better catch up! Well done on War and Peace, I just mentioned it in a video I filmed yesterday as a book I will probably never read! And I couldn't even get the author right! 😂 Oh well, we try our best haha! And in that case, you did better ^^ Interesting answers!

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

I should've known you had already been tagged...little Miss Congeniality! I'm really enjoying War and Peace I'm sorry you don't feel the same. But it is a commitment, that's for sure.

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary That's not how I meant it, I just have a pretty steady stream of tags from BookChatWithPat and I'm very bad at getting them done! I don't think I'm a little miss anything :) I'm happy you're enjoying War and Peace, that's what it's all about!

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

@@ellenmadebookclub It didn't come off that way. I was just joking. You're a peach

[@ellenmadebookclub]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary Ok good, just making sure! Nothing wrong with being nice and all, I just got the visual of Sandra Bullock in her tiara and I'm not the kind of person to win any popularity contests! 😂 So I got the ick a little bit! Although I do love that movie 😁

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

@@ellenmadebookclub Sandra Bullock in her tiara--- 🤣🤣

[@MariaTheMillennial]

You have very inspiring goals! It is a great achievement if you could read such a difficult text in Sanskrit. I also have such an long-term goal: reading contemporary literature in Japanese.

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Japanese is such a wonderful language. Have you found a Japanese author to start with? Always looking for good recs. Best of luck to us and goals!

[@MariaTheMillennial]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary Well so far I'm on the level of children books and only easy texts. But I would like to read Haruki Murakami or Sayaka Murata in Japanese someday.

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

@@MariaTheMillennial Okay, you're the second person to mention Sayaka Murata to me this month, I have to read her stuff. Thank you!

[@MariaTheMillennial]

@@TheLinguistsLibrary yeah I really like her writing style. Weird books but interesting. Convenience Store Woman is a good start. But if you want real weird... Earthlings.

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

@@MariaTheMillennial Noted. Thank you!

[@booksgurrsandpurrs]

Love an excited happy dance. 💃

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Books have that effect on me!

[@booksgurrsandpurrs]

​@@TheLinguistsLibrary It's food & books for me. I just heard my name. "Who me?" 😂

[@elisonetecruz8984]

Parabéns leitora internacional

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Obrigada

[@NerdyNurseReads]

I have Mansfield Park on my TBR for July/August. I'm reading it along with Dickens and Docks over on Instagram! (Also, I just found your channel and I love it!)

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Thank you so much! Just subscribed to yours. Love that you're a nurse🤍🤍🤍

[@abenavides60]

Hello, new subscriber here! I live in a small town bordering Mexico in southern Texas. We are a predominantly Hispanic culture, and I have been wanting to read books in Spanish. I am currently really into the classics as well and I just finished a Russian novel called the Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and it was sooo ridiculously good! Do you have any Mexican classic recommendations? I know books that have been translated into Spanish, but I’d like to read a novel in its original language!

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Hi, thank you for your question. These are the Mexican classics I recommend: "El laberinto de la soledad" by Octavio Paz "Primero sueño" by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz "El llano en llamas" by Juan Rulfo These are perfect for beginners. ¡Buena suerte!

[@abenavides60]

Fantastic! Thank you so much for the recs. Good vibes going your way for the growth of your channel! I Love the way you come across and the obvious passion! I love language as well. Hoping to learn outside of my Spanish and English!

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

@@abenavides60 Thank you so much and happy reading!

[@maisonart9748]

Are you in any way related to poet Fernando Pessoa? Lol Great vid btw!

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Only in spirit! Lol Thank you for watching